Friday, November 8, 2013

Obomination: Obama’s Presidency is now Defined

The quote of Obama’s presidency has now been made. “If you like your health care plan, you can
keep your health care plan.” And unlike
other famous or infamous quotes by other Presidents, President Obama said
versions of this quote over and over again.
Check this out for one quick example:

Obama lied in a substantive and important way.There is no other way around it.This lie is going to have an important effect
on elections going forward, as shown in the recent Virginia Governor’s race in
an analysis by famed prognosticator
Larry Sabato:

President Obama’s poor
ratings in the post-Obamacare launch fiasco probably hurt McAuliffe to some
degree (so much for that big Obama rally on Sunday).

On local radio station WTOP, former Democrat Virginia
Governor Doug Wilder put it much stronger terms say that it almost cost the man
he endorsed, Terry McAuliffe, the Governor’s office. Ken Cuccenlli, who some are trying to label
as too extreme for Virginia, actually won independents by nine points on
Tuesday. As Politico
put it:

The president’s approval
rating has slipped in the wake of the Obamacare fiasco and other scandals of
his fifth year in office, and his trip to Virginia Sunday probably motivated
some independents and Republicans to back Cuccinelli

Even if the website gets fixed, this does not change that
President Obama lied many times about the program that bears his name. Obama finally realized the problem is serious
and did a much too late apology yesterday.
This was likely based on his fellow Democrats telling him he had to do
this to stop the political damage.

As things stand now, one thing is for sure. Democrats up for reelection in 2014 are worried
and I doubt that many will be asking the President to campaign with them the
weekend before the election.